RPM and file extended attributes

[Panu Matilainen]

On Thu, 22 Oct 2009, Mangalampalli, JayantX wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>  
> 
> Is it possible to preserve file’s extended attributes in RPM packages? I
> have some files that I want packaged and they have some EAs (like
> security.selinux etc) that I wish to preserve when installing them
> elsewhere. Can RPM be configured to preserve them? I could not find any
> options that help do that.

Not sanely possible currently, and probably wont be anytime soon either. 
What you can in theory do now is set the EAs from %post, but this gets 
real ugly fast, and for many things you dont really want the raw EA. For 
example selinux parts can vary based on system policy, so just copying the 
raw EA might not have the desider effect on another host.

 	- Panu -